Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-08-26
HORSE GOSSIP.


overs defeat.
At mile Kingston is said to be one of
the best colts in the country.
Garrison, the jockey, purchased Cyclops
for $1,000, at the recent sale of the Fairfax
stables.
The owners of the Halifax Driving Park
have voted to JOIN the American Trotting |
association, and are therefore the only as.
ISOLATION in Canada.
The pacing stallion Brown Hal, who re-
tired last season with record of 2:l715, |
will soon make his temperance on the
turf at Lexington, Ky.
Golden thinks that he has the material |
in ManXmap for a rival to Viking (2:20k), |
which, before handling ManXman, he |
thought the best stallion he ever sat be-
hind.
The young bay gelding Pat, by Sweep
stakes, by Mr.. Alexander Crawford of
Montgomery, n Y, to a Brookly gentle
man for 500 Pat has shown mile in
2:35
The first annual fair of the Stanstead
| Live Stock association will be held at
| Driving Park, Stanstead Plain, August
! 80 and 81 when Sl325 in special prizes and
$40 in races will be awarded.
William j. Mills of Buffalo has bought
the b. M Mambrinetta, record 22l as
mate for May Thorne, record 2:224 for
$4,000. j. H. Goldsmith paid $4,000 for At
lantic, record 2:24l4.
Charley Barnard of Boston has bought
the b. m. Equity of w. H. McCarty for
?o'ooi WINE NnaIley w eicn ol boston mas
bought Of William Wilkin of Cambridge
port, ONO, Ihe PAGER Lazy "Hk!h' record
~. lol 9-'oo'
w. IL. Slmmonds or Lexington, Ky,
has sold to J. W. Bethel of Danville. the
tWo-year-old pay COLI Charley frlar, by
William L., dam the dam of Jumps, by
} Pearsall for $4,000.
The autumn meetings at Sheephead
pay, GraVesend ana Jerome Park VIII DE
particularly Interesting in the 3-year-old
stake events, now that 1t is demonstrated
3 that Hanover Is worked out He Is to
meet Flrenzl Miss Ford, Loggard, Dun
boyne ana others.
Horsemen will be pleased to know that
the reported death OF the trottlng stallion
Domestic, 2:2O12, was false lie has been
a dangerously sick with pneumonia. Latest
accounts state he Is improving, and stands
Il 1alr cnance OF recovering.
The kls3end firm, near Astoria, L. l.,
comprising several hundred acres belong
ing to the Woolsey estate, has been sold TO
L syndicate which lntends converting II
INTO large race track. The NEGOTIATIONS
! nave Deen penang over year. III Is I'M
= derstood that money enough Will be eX-
$ pended on the place to make 1t eclipse
= Sheepshead Bay or the jerome Park
o tracks.
j. The Bard has shown wonderful recu-
: peraliVe power For more than week
d little hope was entertained that he would
II recoI er from an ATTACK, the ike OF when
= would nave proved fatal to W horses out OF
r 100. Ca FRIDAY he began TO improve, anu
e saturday morning he walked out OF his
box and nlOoled at the fresh grass
Trainer Higgins now thinks the horse
has chance to recover.
The result of the races for State OF
> Maine colts at Fairfield, Monday, was as
e follows: Yearlings, Longway first, Van
2 derblt second time, las. Two-year
o. ods Elmbrook first Comrade second
:, time Pas, the fastest time ever made by
II two. year-old colts in Maine. Three-year
:, Odds Haroldson first, Mesee second time
,e 2:44J5
+ IT is now helieved that if the OWE
[. brotbers had mt declared to win the ON
e. nihns stakes with Hanover. their col
If kingston would have won as he wa,
d never extended in the race. Fitzpatriul
e rode according 70 orders. and beliey